This is an excellent discussion. Thanks, Melvyn, for highlighting some of the persistent usability niggles in this otherwise excellent program.
Hussein Shafie wrote: > Melvyn Mildiner wrote: > > * It's not possible to select an Xref with my keyboard - have to > > click it with the mouse. > > I'm afraid that such empty elements are intrinsically hard to select > using the keyboard. > > However, you can do it if you really want: > [1] Use Ctrl+UpArrow to select the text node. > [2] Then, use Ctrl+Shift+DownArrow to select the xref which is the > following sibling of currently selected text node. Our team has certainly run into this issue as well. Is there some reason XXE's editor couldn't be changed to give explicit focus to a preceding or following empty element when using the left or right arrow key to move out of the start or end text node, respectively? I'm unable to think of a case where this behaviour would be unexpected/unwanted. In fact, I've been tempted to modify the editor actions for these keystrokes myself. > > * Please add ".xml" to file names when saving. > > We are always reluctant to implement this kind of feature. > > * Why ".xml"? I mean, why not use ".docb" for DocBook documents? > * It is strongly recommended to use ".dita" and ".ditamap" for DITA > documents. > * etc, etc. Perhaps this should be an option for add-on configurations to set? So, for example, we could set a preference for automatically adding the ".xml" extension to our custom configuration for DocBook. > > When converting to > > "HTML one page" please add ".html" to the file name. > > In all cases, XMLmind XML Editor already suggests a name having an > acceptable extension. (e.g. taken from the document template in the > case of a new document.) This being the case, perhaps all we need is a configuration flag to force the template's filename extension to be used when a filename with no extension is typed in the Save As dialog. > PS: You'll find a two-page, PDF, quick reference card with XXE v3.5. Woo! That'll save me making one. :) We'll be printing these out and sticking them on our desks around here... -Kevin Yank.
